Suppose I had christened my Zarathustra with a name not my own,—let us say with Richard Wagner's name,—the acumen of two thousand years would not have sufficed to guess that the author of Human, all-too-Human was the visionary of Zarathustra.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I. Zeno was a native of Velia.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

It came with the freshness of religious zeal, and religious zeal was a novelty.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

If you prefer the Stoic school, Zeno was a native of Cittium, Cleanthes of Assus, Chrysippus of Soli, Diogenes of Babylon, Antipater of Tarsus; and the Athenian Archidemus migrated to the country of the Parthians, and left at Babylon a succession of the Stoic school.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Zariaspa was another name for Bactra.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

He was not sorry to assure himself of Jotham's neutralising presence at the supper table, for Zeena was always “nervous” after a journey.
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

3. The golden chariot does not exist either in science or fiction; but I much fear Dr. Johnson has confounded the Pleiads with the great bear or wagon, the zodiac with a northern constellation:— ''Ark-on q' hn kai amaxan epiklhsin kaleouein.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

These rumours broke out at last in an open mutiny; indifference succeeded to zeal; weariness and negligence took the place of vigilance and foresight.
— from The Thirty Years War — Complete by Friedrich Schiller

"Did you know Zobriskie was a Nihilist?"
— from The Boy Nihilist or, Young America in Russia by Allan Arnold

If these cold seasons were to become frequent, in consequence of a gradual and general refrigeration of the atmosphere, such migrations would be more and more regular, until, at length, many animals, now confined to the arctic regions, would become the tenants of the temperate zone; while the inhabitants of the temperate zone would approach nearer to the equator.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

In 1853 he went to Zurich, where a new prospect opened to him as a Docent in theology.
— from The Quest of the Historical Jesus A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede by Albert Schweitzer

She had all sorts of loving scolding names, such as "precious torment," "darling bother," and she kept her poor dear grandmother on a continuous trot to see what mischief she was in, and frightened her mother (who thought everybody Page 69 must want to steal Zay) by hiding behind the Missouri currant bush until every nook and corner had been searched; and she made her uncle shake his head gravely because she never could get beyond the first question in the Catechism, "what is your name?" and even then would answer Zay , although he had told her that "that was not her name at all; she had been baptized Salome; and Zay was a name she had no right to whatever."
— from Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories by M. T. W.

I want to remind Christians that "Zealot" was a name given to one of our Lord Jesus
— from Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by J. C. (John Charles) Ryle

However, it is invariably true that, if the passions peculiar to youth virulently assail virtue and expose the heart to the seductions of pleasure, they also give a great facility of doing good, by inflaming youthful zeal which age never fails to cool.
— from Serious Hours of a Young Lady by Charles Sainte-Foi

The silvery current of the Cydnus, with its foliage-lined banks, could be followed by the eye, winding its zigzag way, and narrowing in the dim distance almost to a thread when traced toward its native mountain hiding-place.
— from Victor Serenus: A Story of the Pauline Era by Henry Wood